Operation Manual

CHAPTER 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 40
5.1.7 Hot-Swap Mode
In addition to the drag-and-drop method of loading les from the Browser, Live offers a
Hot-Swap Mode to save you mouse travel. Hot-Swap Mode establishes a temporary link
between the Browser and, for example, a virtual instrument. While in Hot-Swap Mode,
you can step through samples or presets to audition them in place, that is, within the
instrument. Hot-swapping for presets is covered in the Live Device Presets section. Let's go
through an example of hot-swapping samples:
Live's built-in Impulse instrument features eight sample-player slots that can be lled by
dropping samples into them. Alternatively, we can click the Hot-Swap button that appears
as we move the mouse over a slot.
The Hot-Swap Button in
an Impulse Slot.
Clicking the Hot-Swap button engages Hot-Swap Mode: Live's Hot-Swap Browser opens,
and the Hot-Swap icon appears next to one of the les shown.
The Hot-Swap Browser.
While in Hot-Swap Mode, pressing the
Return
key loads that le into the Impulse slot
(presumably while Impulse is playing incoming MIDI notes); pressing , then
Return
loads
the next sample, and so on. Instead of using the keys, we can also double-click on a sample
to load it. The link between the Browser and the instrument will be broken if a different view